The Socialist group in the Senate (french: Groupe socialiste et Sénat) is a
parliamentary group
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in the
Senate
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including representatives of the
Socialist Party
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(PS).
History
The first
parliamentary group
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of socialists in the
Senate
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of the Third Republic was formed following the 1927 senatorial elections with a total of 14 members, after the election of 2 socialists in the 1921 renewal and the 1924 renewal bringing the total to 6 senators. Before the formal constitution of a group in the Senate, the elected socialists sat with the Democratic, Radical, and Radical-Socialist Left group. Though initially disorganized, the senators of the group recognized themselves under the common label of "socialist".
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presided over the group from its foundation, and was later succeeded in this position by
André Morizet
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. Tensions within the group led to the dissent of seven "neo-socialists" in 1933, halving the size of the group; however, the impact of this split was ultimately limited as the
SFIO
The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was fou ...
was able to ensure the survival of the socialist group in the Senate. The group remained roughly the same in size through the end of the Third Republic, with 16 members after the renewals of both
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and 1932; it subsequently adopted the appellation of the SFIO in 1934, was reduced to 13 members after the 1935 renewal, and rebounded to 15 senators after the 1938 renewal.
During the Fourth Republic, a socialist group was formed in the Council of the Republic, with 64 seats following senatorial elections on 8 December 1946, and 62 seats following senatorial elections on 7 November 1948, doing better than its
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partners as a result of its good local implantation. The group subsequently maintained 56 seats following senatorial elections on 18 May 1952, 56 seats following senatorial elections on 19 June 1955, and 60 seats following senatorial elections on 8 June 1958.
Antoine Courrière
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was the first president of the socialist group in the
Senate
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of the Fifth Republic, presiding until his death on 20 September 1974. Following senatorial elections two days later,
Marcel Champeix
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was elected president of the group on 2 October. After his defeat on 28 September 1980, Champeix was replaced by
André Méric
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Claude Estier
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, who was elected president of the group on the same day. After Estier decided not to represent himself in the 2004 renewal, he was succeeded by
Jean-Pierre Bel
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, elected by the socialists in a four-way contest on 28 September.
Bel remained president of the group until 30 September 2011, after which he took office as president of the Senate on 1 October; the left, long a minority a Senate, took control of the high chamber for the first time in the history of the republic after the 2011 renewal, with the number of
Europe Ecology – The Greens
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senators swinging from 4 to 10 and the continuation of the communist group. With Bel at the perch,
François Rebsamen
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was elected president of the group on 1 October, and on 25 September, the group was reformed as the Socialist group, associated and attached Europe Ecology The Greens group (''groupe socialiste, apparentés et groupe Europe Écologie Les Verts rattaché''); after the formation of an independent
ecologist group
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on 11 January 2012, the socialist faction was renamed to the socialist and associated group (''groupe socialiste et apparentés''). After Rebsamen was appointed to the government, he left his seat in the Senate on 14 April 2014, and was succeeded by
Didier Guillaume
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the following day. The left's control of the Senate was ephemeral, with the chamber decisively returning to the control of the right after the 2014 renewal. Following the renaming of the UMP to as the Republicans, its associated group in the Senate was also renamed on 2 June, followed soon thereafter on 10 June by the renaming of the socialist group to the Socialist and Republican group (''groupe socialiste et républicain''). On 27 June 2017, 23 socialists left for the La République En Marche group on the day of its foundation. After the retirement of Guillaume from politics,
Patrick Kanner
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was elected president of the group with 47 votes, against Laurence Rossignol with 25 votes, on 23 January 2018.
List of presidents
Historical membership
See also
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New Left group
The Socialists and affiliated group (french: groupe Socialistes et apparentés ) is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly including representatives of the Socialist Party (PS).
History
The first socialist parliamentary group emerged i ...